METHOD OF READING MRZ USING SAM FOR ELECTRONIC CHIP BASED TRAVEL DOCUMENT OR IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT

摘要

Basic Access Control (BAC), as described in the ICAO specifications for machine readable travel documents, requires Basic Access Keys to establish a BAC session. Up to now, the information used to generate these keys has been optically scanned from the Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) of the document data page. This invention allows the Basic Access Control feature to be implemented securely without visually/optically scanning the data page of the MRTD.